Naw, that's google earth. which is, by intent, a mix of maps with user contributed data. That is exactly what google was shooting for (although, I understand that one took a lot of google higher-ups brain power to figure out if it fell within terms of service)
And, the crowdsourcing of google maps is not so much by desire, but neccessity. If there is no data that google can buy (cheaply, with the right set of usage rights), someone has to make it. getting local people to do the work for free, and google capitalizing on that data, is so this century. Just ask the cddb or imdb. On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:52 AM, Michael Dinowitz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Jerry Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And a couple of links talking about the crowdsourcing that produced the > > Indian detail maps. > > > > http://philbridges.com/filechute/michael_jones_cc2007.mp3 (starts at > about > > 75% in) > > > > > http://www.dankarran.com/blog/archives/2007/07/24/googles_approach_to_crowdsourcing_map_data.php > > It "wisdom of crowds" is a good theory but it fails when the crowd has > people in it with an agenda and 'yell' louder than the crowd does. Point > in > fact. I wanted to add important links to the ColdFusion page on Wikipedia > and it was all removed because the 'editor' wanted no links on the page and > would have removed the dmoz link if he could. Wisdom of crowds vs. > pigheaded > controller of crowds. And the examples go on and on. I say you get a member > of each religious group and country in a room to review all of the data for > a location and then say it's 'real'. That way Kashmir will not swing back > and forth based on who's added it to what map. :) > > The list of "supported countries" for google maps is much smaller than I > > would have guessed: > > http://local.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=16634 > > They're probably focusing on places where things like this can be avoided: > http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2008/07/catastrophe-for.html > As above, one loud voice with false data mixed with real can have a massive > effect over truth. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265685 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
